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Place of Origin: English
1920s English Country Oak Folding Step Ladder
Located in Doylestown, PA
1920s English country oak folding step ladder. A wonderfully practical and charming handcrafted ladder with steps that fold to a space saving size when not in use. It has a nicely sh...
Category
1920s Vintage English Ladders
Materials
Oak
Georgian Spiral Library steps 1950s England
By Chesterfield
Located in Den Haag, NL
Very nice Spiral Library steps .Mahogany .,comes with embossed Gold Leather steps .
Category
1950s Georgian Vintage English Ladders
Materials
Mahogany
Ebonized Library Steps
Located in Huntington, NY
Ebonized Library Steps 3 step library steps
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Antique English Ladders
Materials
Pine
Spiral Library Steps
Located in Sturminster Marshall, Dorset
Two matching (one right hand, one left hand), fine Georgian design spiral design library steps with turned hand pole support, column decoration and inset leather treads.
We are curr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Regency English Ladders
Materials
Leather, Wood
19th Century Georgian Style Oak Library Steps
Located in Houston, TX
Add vintage charm to your home library with these 19th Century Georgian Style English Oak Library Steps. Featuring elegant spherule finials and a rich p...
Category
19th Century Georgian Antique English Ladders
Materials
Oak
English Leather, Brass & Nailhead Trim Folding Stick Library Ladder
Located in Atlanta, GA
English, 20th century.
A wonderful 19th century elephant ladder, in walnut and wrapped with a beautiful light brown leather which is accented by nail...
Category
20th Century Georgian English Ladders
Materials
Brass
English 19th Century Painted Folding Ladder
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
A 19th century English folding ladder–perfect for displaying textiles or draping blankets & throws. Painted a soothing shade of turquoise, this ladder is fitted with nine rungs, tape...
Category
19th Century Other Antique English Ladders
Materials
Pine, Paint
English Library Steps
Located in New York, NY
Beautifully crafted English library steps in mahogany with inlaid leather accents. Features two compartments for convenient storage. A timeless piece o...
Category
19th Century Antique English Ladders
Materials
Mahogany
English Leather, Brass & Nailhead Trim Folding Stick Pole Library Ladder
Located in San Francisco, CA
A wonderful Georgian style library elephant ladder, in walnut and wrapped with a brown leather which is accented by nailhead trim. The ladder folds int...
Category
20th Century Georgian English Ladders
Materials
Brass
English Mahogany Three-Tiered Fitted Interior Leather Bed Steps, Circa 1820
Located in Charleston, SC
English mahogany three-tiered bed steps with tooled green leather, hinged fitted interior compartments, and terminating on turned bulbous ringed legs, Early 19th century.
Category
1820s George III Antique English Ladders
Materials
Leather, Mahogany, Pine
1950's School Gym Bar Rails - 2.2m Singles
Located in Hook, Hampshire
1950's School Gym Bar Rails - 2.2m Singles
1950's School Gym Bar Rails - 2.2m Singles. We recently cleared an old college gym in Yorkshire the walls were line...
Category
1950s Vintage English Ladders
Materials
Pine
An English Mahogany Library Stair with 3 Leather Lined Steps and Single Drawer
Located in San Francisco, CA
An unusual and attractive set of English mahogany Regency style library stairs, each tread lined in brown gilt-tooled leather ending in an identically lined platform. The steps have ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Regency Antique English Ladders
Materials
Brass
20th Century English Leather Library Step or Stairs / Stepladder, Victorian
Located in Berlin, DE
20th Century English leather library step or stairs / stepladder, Victorian.
Solid wood mahogany stained. English library manager / stepladder 2...
Category
20th Century English Ladders
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
Metamorphic Library Steps
Located in Sturminster Marshall, Dorset
A George III design, mahogany four-step metamorphic library coffee table, with decorative gilt incised leather top and leathered steps opening to f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary George III English Ladders
Materials
Brass
Superb pair Mahogany and Leather library steps England
Located in Den Haag, NL
Beautiful pair of Library steps .solid Mahogany .comes with
leather steps with embossed gold lining . on the top step some
storage . Comes with just the right amount of patine .
Go...
Category
1930s Regency Vintage English Ladders
Materials
Mahogany
Vintage English Mahogany and Leather Library Step Ladder on Casters
Located in Dallas, TX
This Regency step-ladder was created in England, circa 1950. Built of mahogany, the three stairs cabinet sits on small, fluted and tapered legs ending with brass wheels; both sides a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Regency English Ladders
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
English Regency Metamorphic Library Ladder
Located in Queens, NY
English Regency mahogany metamorphic library table/steps with hinged top & lion finial on a scrolled base. (with registry tag for J. Brodey, Bristo...
Category
19th Century Regency Antique English Ladders
Materials
Bronze
English Antique Wooden Folding Ladder with Tray Shelf
Located in Atlanta, GA
This well-worn and tall late 19th century English seven step folding ladder features a tray shelf at the top and has the original brackets, hardware, and dowels. The weathered patina...
Category
19th Century Late Victorian Antique English Ladders
Materials
Metal
Burr Walnut Brown Leather Regency Metamorphic Reading Armchair to Library Steps
By Gillows of Lancaster & London
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this pair of large and collectable Regency style metamorphic armchair which converts into Library steps after the original 18th century design by Gillows of Lancaster with Burr Walnut panels
A very good looking and well made pair, I have never seen a Regency style piece with Burr Walnut panels before, the leather seat pads have been restored by my leather polishers, they have been hand dyed six times, antiqued and sealed
The period 1800-1825 was a great one for ‘patent’ or ‘metamorphic’ furniture This chair, which transforms into a short set of steps for use with bookshelves, is close to a design for a ‘Library Chair’ published in Rudolph Ackermann’s Repository of the Arts in July 1811, which was made by the London firm of Morgan and Saunders, of Catherine Street, Strand.
They were well known for their ingenious furniture, including reading chairs with writing surfaces attached and a great variety of travelling beds...
Category
18th Century Regency Antique English Ladders
Materials
Leather, Walnut
Metamorphic Library Bench / Steps
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Very unique and unusual metamorphic bench / library steps with cabriole legs.. It appears to be a bench covered in tobacco brown leather with nail he...
Category
20th Century English Ladders
Materials
Leather, Wood
Regency Mahogany Metamorphic Armchair
Located in Essex, MA
With horizontal tablet crestrail with scrolled ends over down scrolled arms raised on saber legs, chair folds forward to form a ladder.
Category
1810s Regency Antique English Ladders
Materials
Other
Metamorphic Chairs
Located in Sturminster Marshall, Dorset
A pair of George II design metamorphic library steps armchairs with shaped solid backs centered with painted scallop shell crests above hinged seats r...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary George I English Ladders
Materials
Wood, Leather
Fine Georgian Library Steps
Located in Greenwich, CT
Fine set of Georgian library or bedside steps of very dense Cuban mahogany with stunning graining, original gilt lacquer brass carrying handles, and three steps, standing on shaped a...
Category
1780s Georgian Antique English Ladders
Materials
Mahogany
Georgian Hardwood & Leather Library Steps, United Kingdom, Early 19th Century
Located in Chatham, ON
Fine Georgian (Regency Era) hardwood and leather library steps (doubles as an end table) - exceptional bench made quality with warm aged patina - featuring a solid wood frame with on...
Category
Early 19th Century Georgian Antique English Ladders
Materials
Leather, Hardwood
Ash Library Steps
Located in Eindhoven, NL
Beautiful ash library staircase, with many details. The steps are very stable in use due to the construction and the long handle. Perfectly suited for everyday use and multiple purpo...
Category
2010s English Ladders
Materials
Ash
FULLY RESTORED ANTIQUE FLAMED HARDWOOD GREEN LEATHER CHESTERFIELD LIBRARY STEPs
By Chesterfield
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
Royal House Antiques
Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this absolutely stunning, fully restored, hand made in England Flamed Mahogany & Green Leather, Chesterfield...
Category
19th Century Victorian Antique English Ladders
Materials
Leather, Hardwood
HUGE 3+ METER TALL ER STAMPED FOR THE CROWN ESTATE FRUIT PiCKERS PAINTERS LADDER
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
Royal House Antiques
Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this lovely original antique Victorian extra large Fruit Pickers ladder stamped ER with the Crown for the Cr...
Category
1880s Victorian Antique English Ladders
Materials
Pine
Painted Library Ladder
Located in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
Early 20th C painted library ladders. 1920.
Dimensions when closed.
22 inches (56 cms) Wide
6 inches (15 cms) Deep
103 inches (262 cms) High.
Category
Early 20th Century English Ladders
Materials
Pine
Peat Bucket
Located in Pasadena, CA
This is a very large English George III or Regency brass bound mahogany peat bucket. The bucket is in overall very good condition. The bucket features side...
Category
18th Century Georgian Antique English Ladders
Materials
Brass, Tin
Regency Style Leather and Brass Stick Ladder
Located in Essex, MA
Folds into a stick. Wood core covered in brown leather with brass tacks. Hook latch to keep it closed. When closed its 91 inches high. Rungs are 9.25 inches wide.
Category
Early 20th Century Regency English Ladders
Materials
Brass
Antique 1880 Arts & Crafts Metamorphic Library Steps Original Carpet Upholstery
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely antique Arts & Crafts Victorian metamorphic library steps chair in oak with period upho...
Category
1880s Arts and Crafts Antique English Ladders
Materials
Oak
Stunning Antique circa 1810 George III Elm & Leather Library Steps Georgian Home
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this absolutely exquisite circa 1810 George III elm & green leather library steps
What a thing of beauty, nothing screams Georgian decadence li...
Category
1810s George III Antique English Ladders
Materials
Leather, Elm
Brown Standing English Bamboo Magazine Rack Sheet Music Stand or Canterbury
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
A beautiful chinoiserie standing magazine rack or sheet music stand. Lacquered pieces of bamboo are affixed together in an angled geometric desi...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinoiserie English Ladders
Materials
Bamboo
Regency Brass Inlaid Rosewood Metamorphic Bench
Located in Kittery Point, ME
The rectangular padded seat covered in brown leather, opening to reveal a set of library steps, over a solid inlaid seat-rail and ring-turned tapering legs ending in castors.
18in. high, 34 1/2in. wide and 16 1/2in. deep. Opened, 36in. high and 49in. wide.
Rooms organized during the Regency period as libraries often had floor-to-ceiling bookshelves. The upper shelves were difficult to reach, so movable library stairs were invaluable. Further, libraries were one of the most important rooms in a stately house, symbol of its owner's wealth, culture and status. As a consequence, designers, architects and cabinet or chair makers devoted much attention to its architecture and decoration. Hence, the emrgence of innovative ideas such as our bench.
Enter the Regency era metamorphic library chair/bench (chairs are more common than benches)!
The tables, chairs and stools containing library steps were patented in Great Britain by Robert Campbell in 1774 but this innovative chair-based design did not become immediately popular. Once the Regency was established, a neo-classical interpretation of Campbell’s Metamorphic Library Chair concept started to become popular in London. Any early attributions rely heavily on two contemporary sketches...
Category
Early 19th Century Regency Antique English Ladders
Materials
Brass
Antique Original Painted "the Patient Safety Ladder Company" Decorators Ladder
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer this lovely original antique "The Patient Safety Ladder Company" decorators ladder
A good looking and decorative piece, I ha...
Category
1910s Edwardian Vintage English Ladders
Materials
Pine
Antique Original Patina Painted Finish Red Tall Library Bookcase Steps Ladder
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely original pine library steps or ladder
A good looking and decorative piece, I have seen these with glass shelves fitted and upcycled ...
Category
1910s Edwardian Vintage English Ladders
Materials
Pine
VINTAGE ART NOUVEAU STYLE 166 CM TALL BRASS TOPPED HARDWOOD LIBRARY STEPs
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
Royal House Antiques
Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this lovely Art Nouveau style vintage Mahogany with brass handle top library steps
Please note the deliver...
Category
20th Century Art Nouveau English Ladders
Materials
Hardwood
Antique 1830 William IV Flamed Hardwood Metamorphic Library Armchair Steps
By Gillows of Lancaster & London
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this large and collectable lightly restored William IV circa 1830 Flamed Mahogany, metamorphic armchair which converts into Library steps attributed to Gillows of Lancaster and London.
This is a wonderful piece of English history, I have never seen another with such elegant turned front legs, usually they are plainer and straight timber. The seat pad has been upholstered with a grey linen, the steps and raw flamed mahogany and look amazing.
This chair is an important and extremely expensive looking thing that commands attention in any setting. You can see the same model made by Gillows currently viewed in the Victorian & Albert Museum, below is an extra from their listing.
The period 1800-1825 was a great one for ‘patent’ or ‘metamorphic’ furniture This chair, which transforms into a short set of steps for use with bookshelves, is close to a design for a ‘Library Chair’ published in Rudolph Ackermann’s Repository of the Arts in July 1811, which was made by the London firm of Morgan and Saunders, of Catherine Street, Strand.
They were well known for their ingenious furniture, including reading chairs with writing surfaces attached and a great variety of travelling beds...
Category
1830s William IV Antique English Ladders
Materials
Hardwood
Early 19th Century English Oak Carved Easel
Located in Malibu, CA
English oak easel with hand carved lion head & scroll work.
Original adjustable hardware.
Category
Early 19th Century Renaissance Revival Antique English Ladders
Materials
Oak
Vintage Pitch Pine circa 1920's Original Aqua Blue Paint Decorators Ladder
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely original circa 1910-1920 pine painted library steps or ladder which is stamped G.R.D.C
A good looking and decorative piece, original...
Category
1920s Edwardian Vintage English Ladders
Materials
Pine
English William IV Period Satinwood & Leather Library Steps, 3rdq 19th cen.
Located in Atlanta, GA
in the form of a rectangular box raised on turned legs, the top and pull-out step with stenciled leather insets, the interior lined in green velvet, depth with step extended 23.5 inches
Category
1830s William IV Antique English Ladders
Materials
Satinwood
Beckford Bed Steps
Located in Sturminster Marshall, Dorset
A finely craved and decorated pair of bed steps in mahogany with leather inset treads and column supports.
We are currently working to a 30-36 week lead time.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Regency English Ladders
Materials
Leather, Wood
19th Century Mahogany Bedsteps with Chamber Drawer
Located in Charleston, SC
Great set of 19th century English mahogany and leather bedsteps with sliding chamber drawer.
Category
19th Century Antique English Ladders
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
HUGE 3+ METER TALL DOE TS73 STAMPED FRUIT PICKERS PAINTERS ANTiQUE 1880 LADDER
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
Royal House Antiques
Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this lovely original antique Victorian extra large Fruit Pickers ladder stamped DOE TS73
Please note the de...
Category
1880s Victorian Antique English Ladders
Materials
Pine
Grdc Stamped Pitch Pine circa 1920's Original Aqua Green Paint Decorators Ladder
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer this lovely original circa 1910-1920 pine painted library steps or ladder which is stamped G.R.D.C
A good looking and decorative piece, originally made f...
Category
1920s Edwardian Vintage English Ladders
Materials
Pine
